45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were brought up Catholic, compared with 43.5% identifying as Protestants, data from the 2021 census showed.

DUBLIN—Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government was plunged into crisis Monday as the senior Catholic leader announced he was quitting in a showdown with his Protestant colleague that could ...

Catholic hostility to Protestant parades helped ignite a conflict over Northern Ireland's future that claimed more than 3,600 lives from the late 1960s to mid-1990s, when paramilitary cease-fires ...

Northern Ireland leaders say they have reached an agreement after 11 weeks of negotiating to sustain their troubled 7½-year-old Catholic-Protestant government.

Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time since the partition of the island, census figures show. The Census 2021 figures, published on Thursday, show that 45.7% of the ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland's main Protestant party on Saturday rejected a British deadline to share power with Catholics, officials said, launching a showdown that could end in ...

Negotiations to bolster Northern Ireland's power-sharing government are opening Thursday in Belfast as the 7-year-old alliance of British Protestants and Irish Catholics faces its toughest ...

In Northern Ireland, flags are first and foremost used as a means of territorial demarcation. In Catholic neighbourhoods, the Irish tricolour flies from every lamp standard.

<p>Police firing plastic bullets and powerful water cannons forced Catholic militants away from a disputed Belfast road Tuesday as Northern Ireland’s annual day of Protestant marches reached a ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Masked and hooded Belfast Catholics hurled gasoline bombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at police today as the most bitterly divisive day on the Northern ...